South China Sea Dispute
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Chinese army newspaper calls for military role in Internet culture war
An article published in the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of China’s military—and reprinted in part by Qiushi, the official magazine of the Chinese Communist Party—calls the Internet “the ideological ‘main front’ and ‘the main battlefield’” upon which China must fight an ideological war upon the West to defend itself from the creeping […]
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Global Peace Index: South China Sea a ‘Potential Area For Conflict’
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, USAThis week, the Institute for Economics and Peace published its annual Global Peace Index. This year’s index highlighted that escalating civil strife and the consequent refugee crisis have been among the key drivers in increasing the cost of containing global violence. The intensity of armed conflict increased dramatically, with the number of people killed in conflicts […]
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China has grown by 2,000 acres in 18 months
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, SpratlysAs the Chinese military races to build outposts on reclaimed land, nearby countries are alarmed by the territorial expansion. Now, tensions between China, its neighbors and the U.S. over disputed waters in the South China Sea are growing, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane. The sandy beaches at the Philippines’ Pag-Asa Island are on the […]
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AFP sets more surveillance in West Philippine Sea
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, SpratlysThe military will be conducting more surveillance in the West Philippine Sea following China’s pronouncement that it would be building more structures on the artificial islands in the contested area. Asked if the military was alarmed that China had continued its reclamation efforts in the disputed territory, Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Gregorio […]
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U.S. Calls China’s South China Sea Building Efforts ‘Troubling’
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, USAThe U.S. finds China’s efforts to build military facilities on reclaimed South China Sea islands “troubling” and plans to raise the issue during annual talks in Washington this month, a top State Department official said. Daniel Russel, assistant U.S. secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, was responding to a Chinese statement Tuesday, […]
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Statement of IMOA on the Conferment of the UPAA Distinguished Alumni Award for Nationalism and International Law on Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio
IMOA statement, International Law, Justice Antonio Carpio, Justice Antonio T. Carpio, legal advocacy, Maritime Rights, Nationalism, Philippine Sovereignty, South China Sea, South China Sea Dispute, UPAA, UPAA Distinguished Alumni Award, West Philippine SeaIMOA celebrates Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio’s UPAA Distinguished Alumni Award for Nationalism and International Law, honoring his defense of Philippine maritime rights and sovereignty.
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South China Sea: Satellite Images Show Pace of China’s Subi Reef Reclamation
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, Luconia, Malaysia, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, USASatellite imagery from June 5, 2015 shows China has expanded its land fill of Subi Reef by 74 percent in less than two months, adding an average of eight acres of surface per day on that reef alone. Mischief Reef, larger than Subi, is now more than half filled in, according to a June 9, […]
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Robert D. Kaplan: ‘The South China Sea is to China what the Greater Caribbean was to the United States’
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210844936″ params=”color=da161f” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Why do you consider the South China Sea one of the world’s more important pieces of geo-political real estate? The South China Sea is to China what the Greater Caribbean was to the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The United States became a great […]
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Freedom of navigation in East, South China seas stressed
Artificial Islands, China, Code of Conduct, Ecology, Environmental Impact, Fishing Rights, Food Security, Justice Antonio T. Carpio, Reclamation, South China Sea DisputeMANILA — Maritime security experts attending a symposium hosted by the Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS) agreed Monday that freedom of navigation and overflight in the East and South China seas should be assured. The symposium, titled “Towards Common Actions on Maritime Commons — Safeguarding Maritime Security in Asia through Regional Cooperation,” was cohosted […]